The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

by Jerold C. Frakes

A unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their comprehensive program of study of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The book focuses on how that interest was particularly manifested in a score of treatises on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Yiddish language and literature.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403975477
• ISBN13: 9781403975478
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"